TEM176: Managing burnout, not waiting to live your best life and streamlining tasks - A conversation with Elisa Janson Jones

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TEM176: Managing burnout, not waiting to live your best life and streamlining tasks - A conversation with Elisa Janson Jones

Elisa Janson Jones is an entrepreneur, author, educator and the founder of the International Music Educator Summit.

On Today's Episode of The Entrepreneurial Musician:

  • The crazy number of projects she has going in addition to her full-time teaching job

  • How she successfully pitched SmartMusic about doing a podcast for them

  • The thought process behind getting an MBA and the work that has led to

  • The key to improving anything

  • The inspiration for her two books (which were both written for very specific business reasons)

  • Why writing a grant is just like writing a business plan (and why you have to help the organization you're pitching to fulfill their mission)

  • Why Elisa doesn't believe in work/life balance

  • The inspiration for the International Music Education Summit and how she decided to price it

  • The importance of streamlining processes to save time down the road

  • How she used research and testing to build the summit

  • The changes that the summit has undergone in just two years

  • The ownership everyone feels when they are a part of a community

  • Elisa's incredible life story that has included becoming a mother during college and surviving a very difficult marriage and how those experiences helped to change her mindset about business and life

  • Living the life you want to live because none of us are promised a tomorrow

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Produced by Drake Domingue

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